Kamloops MLA reacts to campaign finance bill
KAMLOOPS — “The devil will be in the details.”
The words of Kamloops-North Thompson Liberal MLA Peter Milobar in regards to the BC NDP’s amended Election Act legislation introduced Monday.
The bill proposes to ban big money from politics and to limit individual donations to $1,200 per year. The legislation also bans out-of-province donations and caps contributions to third-party advertisers.
“We haven’t had a chance to even look at it yet,” Milobar told CFJC Today. “But certainly we’ve long had concerns as a party around government funded subsidies as well as some of the other language that might be in the bill as it relates to how it deals with unions and union secondments of staff during an election.”